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It just takes one word for Apple Inc. to make headlines. "Yep," read an e-mail, apparently from CEO Steve Jobs. The message was addressed to Andrea Nepori, an Italian blogger who wrote to sjobs@apple.com this week. He asked Jobs whether he'd be able to sync his catalog of free e-books to the iPad, which will hit U.S. stores next week. Jobs' affirmation wasn't the real news. That particular detail was listed on Apple's Web site before Nepori's inquiry. The response itself is what...

Jun 06 (TheWrap.com) - When CNN's Don Lemon took issue with a Gawker post about one of his columns on the N-word, the site responded by refusing to correct its story â and instead published his emails of complaint. What started as a discussion about the N-word has turned into one about whether Gawker overreached for the sake of a flashy headline, and did anything wrong by publishing emails the sender intended as private. Lemon tells TheWrap he'd like...

The Army was never told about e-mails to a radical Islamic cleric sent by the military psychiatrist now accused of killing 13 people in last week's rampage at Fort Hood, a senior Defense Department official said Tuesday. The failure of two high-profile Joint Terrorism Task Forces to inform the Defense Department about contacts between Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and the militant cleric recalls the kind of breakdowns of...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has launched a wide-ranging surveillance program that will give its security agencies and even income tax officials the ability to tap directly into e-mails and phone calls without oversight by courts or parliament, several sources said. The expanded surveillance in the world's most populous democracy, which the government says will help safeguard national security, has alarmed privacy advocates at a time when allegations of massive U.S....

As Congress prepares to examine how a Virginia couple crashed last week's state dinner at the White House, the pair may be pointing to e-mail correspondence they had with a Pentagon official to prove they were invited guests. Federal officials say that Tareq and Michaele Salahi were mistakenly admitted by Secret Service agents who failed to verify that they were on the guest list. But authorities acknowledged Monday that in the weeks leading up to...

By Charles Abbott WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - A leaked Agriculture Department e-mail briefly rattled the U.S. livestock market on Wednesday as traders treated it as an omen for meat packers due to budget cuts that could furlough thousands of U.S. meat inspectors later this year. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has said USDA will cushion the impact on the meat industry and consumers as much as possible. Still, there could be brief plant-by-plant...

Ginger Zee is a pretty face and a perfect example of the perils of objectification. She punches a few numbers on her phone and hands over the receiver. A slow, drawling man's voice comes on: "Yeah, hi, uh, I got to tell you, you got that real cute weath'r gurrrrl right there. …" She hangs up before he's finished. "It goes on for 10 minutes like that," she says, grinning. She couldn't stand to erase it, though. The message is hilarious, and everything she's not, explained in a single voice mail.

The Sports Xchange Paterno family issues statement criticizing leaks The Paterno family released a statement through lawyer Wick Sollers on Monday criticizing the recent leaks of information regarding former Penn State coach Joe Paterno, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette reported. The statement also called on the attorney general's office to release all relevant information in the case involving former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. The...

This is embarrassing, but it's 2010 and I still have an AOL e-mail address. I wonder if I hold some kind of record. I opened my AOL account in 1997. My first e-mail address was a combination of a nickname and the year I was born. Back then everyone had goofy screen names like Tarheels80 and SwimFan, so mine seemed appropriate. But as I started using e-mail more and more for freelance work, it seemed wrong. In 1998 I changed to a more respectable use of my initials and last...

MLB Team Report - Chicago White Sox - INSIDE PITCH Kevin Youkilis went 1-for-4 in his second game with the White Sox on Tuesday, but this time in a 3-2 win at Minnesota thanks to Gavin Floyd's seven scoreless innings. However, Youkilis still couldn't escape the national spotlight. This time it was presidential. Youkilis heard the news that a flap resulted when President Obama, a White Sox fan, made comments that touched a nerve in Red Sox Nation at a fundraiser in Boston on Monday night.

E-mails penned by a key planner of the deadly 2008 terror attack in Mumbai are being sought by attorneys for a Chicago man who goes on trial in May on charges he helped engineer the plot. Attorneys for Tahawwur Hussain Rana asked a federal judge Monday for access to e-mails written by David Coleman Headley, who pleaded guilty last year to plotting the Mumbai attack and one never carried out on a Danish newspaper targeted for printing controversial cartoons...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Canadian woman was charged on Monday with stalking actor Alec Baldwin after appearing outside his New York City apartment over the weekend following a series of e-mails and messages that in some cases referred to the bachelor as her husband. Genevieve Sabourin, 40, of Montreal was charged with five misdemeanor offenses including aggravated harassment and stalking, and she was released on her own recognizance. New York City criminal court Judge...

Andrew Rosen, chairman and chief executive of Kaplan Inc., testified Tuesday that he felt physically threatened in 2007 when he received an e-mail that included the sentence: "It is now time for us to step up this operation and strike you back and let you feel our wrath. " The e-mail, which was filled with profanity, also suggested the sender was stalking Rosen. "This was probably the most violent, hostile chilling e-mail I have received," Rosen said in federal court...

An investigator for Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn's human rights agency got a slap on the wrist for forwarding an e-mail before last November's election that contended the Republican Party had been hijacked by “dangerous, radical hate mongers called the 'Tea Party.' " The e-mail, sent on a state computer, claimed talk show host Glenn Beck and former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin led the tea party effort to “take down President Obama...

A Lake in the Hills woman has been charged with sending dozens of troubling e-mails to Village President Ed Plaza, according to court records. Amy Pezen, 43, of the 1500 block of Jefferson Street was charged last week with eights counts of disorderly conduct. She was released after posting $1,000 bail and ordered by a McHenry County judge to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. A hearing is scheduled for March 17 in Circuit Court. Police...

You're divorced or single and thinking of trying that online dating thing, but something is holding you back. I get it. I've been there. So have lots of other people. "Twenty million people are dating online," says Bela Gandhi of the Smart Dating Academy, who I talked to for a story earlier this year ( "Are you good at dating?", TribU, Jan. 20, 2011 ). "I have so many clients who are in super-serious relationships that they found online. " That's all well and good, but the thing is, I...

The "Eavesdropping on readers," (Commentary, Dec. 23), is much appreciated by us readers of the printed page. Thanks for the sharing of comments in e-mails from Tribune readers using the electronic technology.

By the time my colleague realized she had a BlackBerry problem, she was checking – and answering -- work e-mails until 11 at night. She was on-call all weekend, not because her job required it, but because, well, there was something to do and a way to do it. She was basically working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and despite her cheery smile, she was not a happy camper. "I was filled with rage," she recalls. That's not an uncommon scenario, according to Joanne...